Primary History E-Books

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Also Known as: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
American publications from 1639 to 1800. Browsable by subject, genre, author, etc....   [more]

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
Also Known as: shaw shoemaker
The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides publishe...   [more]

ECCO 18th Century Collections Online
Also Known as: ECCO, Eighteenth century collections online
"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-tex...   [more]

EEBO: Early English Books Online
Also Known as: Early English Books Online; Short Title Catalogue; Wing; Pollard and Redgrave
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented...   [more]
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Making of Modern Law: Treatises on American and British law, 1800-1926
Treatises on American and British law, 1800-1926: "The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published ...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1926
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Also Known as: NAWLD
Fulltext of letters and diaries, published and manuscript, of American women during the Colonial period through 1950. Biographical information is provided for each writer. Primary source materials are...   [more]

Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

Important History E-Books

A Century of Lawmaking: U.S Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The Library of Congress houses one of the most complete collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original format. In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholar...   [more]
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A Century of Progress the 1933-34 World's Fair
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A Vision of Britain Through Time
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends, census data and historical descriptions....   [more]
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Abraham Lincoln Correspondence
Provides correspondence between Lincoln and friends and associates from Lincoln's Springfield days, well-known political figures and reformers, and local people and organizations writing to their pres...   [more]
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
Also Known as: ACLS History E-book Project, ACLS History EBooks, American Council of Learned Societies
Major works in historical scholarship. A project of the American Council of Learned Societies....   [more]
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Adams Papers Digital Edition
Also Known as: Adams Papers
Includes: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams Earliest Diary and Autobiography of John Adams Diary of John Quincy Adams Adams Family Correspondence Legal Papers of John Adams Papers of John Ad...   [more]

Advice, Conduct, and Etiquette Literature
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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The 351 titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation ora...   [more]
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African-American Sheet Music
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Algerie anciennce
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American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776
"Peter Force, printer and document collector, intended to publish rare pamphlets, correspondence, and proceedings relating to the "Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America" th...   [more]
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American Diplomatic Code / Jonathan Elliott
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Early compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements, originally published in 1834....   [more]

American Foreign Relations since 1600
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Holdings: 4th ed. & 3rd ed.
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American History Collection (American Founding Era, Antebellum, Civil War, and Recontruction, American Century)
Also Known as: rotunda
Allows simultaneous searching of the collected works of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Dolley Madison and the Ratification of the Constitution....   [more]
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American Jewish Committee Archives
"Filled with more than a million documents and hundreds of movies and radio shows, the New York-based American Jewish Committee Archives house an extraordinary range of resources on the past century o...   [more]
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American Journeys: Eyewitess Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 ...   [more]
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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress Administration from 1936-1940. The collection inclu...   [more]
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American Memory
"Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." A project of the Library of Congress....   [more]
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American Menu Collection, 1856-1930
Digitized collection of American menus from the New York Public Library. Search the entire collection or browse by date. Information about date and physical description is provided for each image. Sea...   [more]
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American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations...   [more]
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American Popular Songs Sheet Covers, 1890-1922
Digitized collection of nearly five thousand popular song sheet covers from the New York Public Library. Search the entire collection or browse by date. Information about date and physical description...   [more]
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American Presidency Project
Contains a number of resources relevant to studies on the American presidency: Public Papers of the Presidents, 1789-2007, State of the Union messages and addresses, inaugural addresses, radio address...   [more]
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American State Papers
The American State Papers, comprising a total of thirty-eight physical volumes, contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes docu...   [more]
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American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Also Known as: An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
More than 10,000 digitized items. While the broadside format represents the bulk of the collection, there are a significant number of leaflets and some pamphlets. Rich in variety, the collection inclu...   [more]
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Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. T...   [more]

Archive of Early American Images
Nearly three thousand images from "relatively obscure books printed in Europe in the early modern period that have in them material related to the Americas" contained in the John Carter Brown Library....   [more]
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ARTFL
The ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction p...   [more]
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Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 100,000 volumes publish...   [more]
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Bibliography of the English colonial treaties with the American Indians
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Black Mafia Family FBI File
FBI investigation of the Philadelphia based "Black Mafia" group during the early 1970s....   [more]
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Bloomsbury Collections: Classical Studies & Archaeology
Also Known as: Bloomsbury Classics Collections, Bloomsbury Classical Studies and Archaeology, Ancient History Archive
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Boston African Americana
Coordinated by the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston African Americana Project gathers visual and textual materials held by the Athenaeum, the Bostonian Society, Historic New England, and the Massachusetts...   [more]
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British Cartoon Prints
"Cartoons in the British Cartoon Collection at the Library of Congress were published primarily between 1780 to 1830, an era dominated by the prodigious talents and prolific efforts of such famous car...   [more]
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British History Online
A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles." Includes sources for parliamentary, ecclesiastical and ...   [more]
Holdings: Access to freely available content only.

British Library Images Online
Collection of over 20,000 images of manuscripts, rare books, maps and more....   [more]
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British MI5 files on K.V. Krishna Menon, 1929-1955
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Broadsides from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, tre...   [more]
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Cambridge Archive Editions
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Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Also Known as: Cambridge Companions Online
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Cambridge Economic History of Europe
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Cambridge Histories Online
Also Known as: CHO
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Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
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    Volume 3: The Globalizing of America, 1913¿1945
    Volume 4: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945¿1991

Cambridge History of Russia
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Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive Module 1 1920-1979...   [more]
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Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
More than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. These materials pertain to: the May 4, 1886 meeting and bombing; to the ...   [more]
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Civil Rights FBI Case Files
FBI case files of events and groups involved in cases of racial violence. Includes files for: Ku Klux Klan, Louis Allen, Benjamin Brown, Henry Dee and Charlie Moore, Willie Edwards, Jr., Jimmie Lee ...   [more]
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Cold War International History Project Archive
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other s...   [more]
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Collection of Neutrality Laws Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries (Deak and Jessup)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext anthology of countries' neutrality laws and regulations and treaty provisions relating to neutral rights and duties for the nineteenth and and early twentieth centuries. Texts provided in ori...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1938

Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
"The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Ful...   [more]
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Cornell University Historical Monographs
Currently includes over 400 titles across a variety of langauges and subjects....   [more]
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Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: A Digital Library of Latin Literature
The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) is a collaborative project among scholars from a variety of disciplines with the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the...   [more]
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Crime Broadsides at Harvard Library
Digitized collection of over 500 broadsides held by the Harvard Library system. "The examples digitized here span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of executions for such crimes as arson, as...   [more]
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Crisis of the Union
Also Known as: The Crisis of the Union
This collection is comprised of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880. Items are drawn primarily from t...   [more]
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Decennials - Census of Population and Housing
Also Known as: Historical census volumes
PDF-format versions of historic US decennial census volumes, 1790 to present. Topics covered include basic counts of population and housing, with race and gender, for the nation, states, counties, tow...   [more]
Holdings: 1790 to present (backfile in progress: 1790-1860, 1990-2000 available)
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Defining Gender Online
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5 centuries of advice literature, 1410-1910. This fulltext collection is being released in stages. Currently available: Section I, Conduct and Politeness; Section II: Domesticity and the Family; Sec...   [more]

Dictionary of American History , 3rd ed 2003
Also Known as: Dictionary of American History , 3rd Ed., 10v, 2003
- from Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Digi20
Digi20 is a DFG-funded project that makes available recent but out-of-print books from academic publishers in the humanities and social sciences, digitized by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Publishe...   [more]
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Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts with contributions from multiple libraries including the University of Pennsylvania Rare Books and Manuscripts coll...   [more]
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Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution
Hein database....   [more]

Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America, from the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, 10th September, 1783, to the Adoption of the Constitution, March 4, 1789
Hein online database....   [more]

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
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Documenting the American South
"Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century."...   [more]
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Dolley Madison Digital Edition
Also Known as: Dolley Madison
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Early Republic: Critical Editions on the Founding of the United States
Also Known as: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Online edition of Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (Johns Hopkins Press). Primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members...   [more]

East London Theater Archive
ELTA's collection ranges from 1827 to the present day, including playbills and programmes to press cuttings and photographs. It also has themed essays to contextualise the material and maps showing th...   [more]
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Election Statistics / Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Also Known as: Statistics of the presidential and congressional election , Statistics of the congressional election
Fulltext (PDF and HTML) of biennial reports on results of U.S. congressional elections and quadrennial reports on U.S. presidential and congressional elections, 1920-present....   [more]
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ELIOHS: Electronic Library of Historiography
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Empire online
Manuscript and printed materials pertaining to the history of colonialism, 1492-1962. Primarily British. ...   [more]
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Endangered Archives Programme - British Library
Digitized primary source materials collected and preserved worldwide....   [more]
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English Reports
HeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the Engli...   [more]

Evanion Catalogue of Victorian Ephemera
Catalogue to a collection of over 5,000 items of ephemera in the British Library. Images of many of the items are available online....   [more]
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Evans TCP
Also Known as: Evans Early American Imprint Collection, Evans Text Creation Partnership, Evans Digital Collection TCP
The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text...   [more]

Exposing Marandet: French plays from the 18th and 19th centuries
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Fairman Rogers Collection
An ongoing digitization project. The collection comprises 1,054 rare volumes on horses and horsemanship including medical guides, stud books, books on shoeing, harnessing, training, riding, driving, r...   [more]
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FDA Notices of Judgment
The FDA Notices of Judgment Collection is a digital archive of the published notices judgment for products seized under authority of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. The NJs are resources in themselve...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
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Gallica
A digitization project of the Bibliothhque nationale de France. "Gallica 2," in trial mode through 2008, includes 60,000 books and 80,000 images (all out of copyright) as well as "thousands" of in-cop...   [more]
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German History in Documents and Images
a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are acco...   [more]
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Google Books
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Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.
Also Known as: Ancient World , Great Events from History The Ancient World Prehistory 476 c.e.
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Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.
Also Known as: Great Lives from History The Ancient World, Prehistory 476 c.e.
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Gutenberg-e
A collaborative project of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press, offering digitized books in the field of history, enriched with hyperlinks, images, music, etc....   [more]
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Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)
A digital collection of over 3,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1850 and 1920....   [more]
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Historical Session Laws and Statutes at Large
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History of Afghanistan Online
Also Known as: HAO
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
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Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

Home Economics Archive
"HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their ...   [more]
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Imigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US f...   [more]
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Index of all reports issued by bureaus of labor statistics in the United States prior to March 1, 1902
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Index of economic material in documents of the states of the United States: Pennsylvania, 1790-1904 / Adelaide Hasse
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Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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U.S. treaties (1778-1871), laws (1871 and later), executive orders, and other documents relating to Indian affairs up to 1971. Originally published in 7 chronological volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1778-1971

Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
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Jesuit Relations, 1610-1791
The Jesuit relations and allied documents; travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations...   [more]
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Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World
A collection of Latin texts and photos of archaeological sites focused on Rome. Includes digitized reference sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. ...   [more]
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Legal Classics
Searchable, digital collection of several hundred classic works of legal scholarship published in the 17th-20th centuries....   [more]

Legal Classics Library (HeinOnline)
- from HeinOnline
More than 1,400 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo and Edwardo Coke. In addition to many "classics", this collection in...   [more]

Legislative Activities of the French 5th Republic, 1958-
Parlmentary debates, index of laws and records of written questions for and answers from ministers. 1958-....   [more]
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Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins)
Collection of 29,000+ American popular song sheets from 1780-1960....   [more]
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Lewis & Clark: A Journey
A web site featuring the full text of the 1814 Biddle edition of the journals and other sources for education and research....   [more]
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List of Indian Treaties
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Holdings: 1 vol. - 1964

Loeb Classical Library
Also Known as: Digital Loeb Library
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Making of America - Cornell site
Also Known as: moa
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject area...   [more]
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Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Also Known as: The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York....   [more]

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978...   [more]

Manuscripts Relating to Slavery: New-York Historical Society
The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. T...   [more]
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Martin Luther King Archive
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Mau and Kelsey's "Pompeii: Its Life and Art" (2nd. ed., 1907)
This book has been the standard handbook on Pompeii for the last century, and was the inspiration for The World of Pompeii. It is now out of copyright and in the public domain. Individual chapters are...   [more]
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McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory, 1785-1867
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McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Fulltext for a large collection of significant texts in the history of economic thought. Includes representative texts of all of the major thinkers and schools of thought; and most of the sub-fields o...   [more]
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Microsoft Live Book Search
Book digitization project including mainly public domain works held by the University of California system, the University of Toronto, the British Library, the New York Public Library, Cornell Univers...   [more]
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National Park Service Digital Library
Historical photos, brochures, park histories, handbooks, technical reports, etc....   [more]
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Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Collection
A large, searchable database of material relating to the Nuremberg Trials digitized and made available by the Harvard Law School Library....   [more]
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922)
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Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Holdings: 2011-
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Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History
Electronic edition of Oxford's handbook for Postwar European History. Part of the great Oxford handbook database. ...   [more]

Oxford Handbooks Online: History
All Oxford Handbooks in history, searchable online, across titles and across subjects. ...   [more]
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Also Known as: OSEO
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Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
Also Known as: Papers of George Washington
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Papers of James Madison
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Papers of Thomas Jefferson
"Since 1950, Jefferson's writings have been compiled in the ongoing project The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Rotunda's digital edition brings together all thirty-three volumes published through 2006 in...   [more]

Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security
"In response to the declassification of NATO records and the growing availability of documents from archives in Eastern and Central Europe, PHP as a cooperative undertaking of more than twenty partner...   [more]
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Also Known as: Parliamentary Rolls
Eight million words of text, translation and introductions, recording all surviving records of English Parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII covering the years from 1272 to 1504. Includes scholarly ...   [more]

Penn Press e-books (via JSTOR)
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Perseus Digital Library
Also Known as: Perseus
Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. The primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. ...   [more]
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Philological Museum, The
A site devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British, published under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham. This site consists of two parts: Library of Huma...   [more]
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Political Americana (Cornell University)
Pop up blockers must be disabled to use database. "The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; ...   [more]
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Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

Public Papers of the Presidents of the Presidents of the United States, 1896-2004
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Published Records of the American Colonies and Early States
Searchable digital collection of published pre-1800 records from the U.S. colonies and early states....   [more]
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Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Spatmittelalters
A rich (and growing) collection of resources relating to the late Middle Ages....   [more]
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth
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Regesta Imperii
An index to source material pertaining to all the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire from the Carolingians to Maximilian I (751-1519), as well as to the Popes of the high and early middle age...   [more]
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Russell Sage Foundation e-books (Project MUSE)
Searchable fulltext for a selection of Russell Sage Foundation books....   [more]
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Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered epheme...   [more]
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Selected Digitized Documents Related to the Holocaust and Refugees, 1933-1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
This digital collection consists of documents selected from across the holdings of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library archives. Selections reflect the Roosevelt administration's involvement in the even...   [more]
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Senate Executive Journals, 1789-1875
Records of the motions and actions of closed session meetings of the Senate, mainly dealing with nominations and treaties....   [more]
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Senate Executive Journals, 1954-2005
Records of the motions and actions of closed session meetings of the Senate, mainly dealing with nominations and treaties....   [more]

Sixties in America
Also Known as: The Sixties in America
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Contains over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The docu...   [more]
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Stalin Digital Archive
Also Known as: SDA
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State and Provincial Papers of New Hampshire
Known variously as the State Papers, Provincial Papers, or by its component parts: Revolutionary Rolls, Town Papers, Town Charters and Masonian Papers, Probate Records, and Court Records, this forty v...   [more]
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State Slavery Statutes, 1789-1865
Includes over 7000 state statues relating to slavery...   [more]

Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
Images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the wealthy and renowned such as an accou...   [more]
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Technical Report Archive and Image Library
Technical reports communicate research progress in technology and science; they deliver information for technical development to industry and research institutions contributing to the continued growth...   [more]
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade
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The Antislavery Literature Project
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The International War Crimes Tribunal for Germany (Avalon Project)
Includes the complete "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal : Proceedings Volumes" half of "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" and a range of documents related to G...   [more]
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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
A digital version of Yale's ongoing effort to collect, edit and publish the collected papers of Benjamin Franklin.

This digital edition includes texts of the published papers and unverified, rou...   [more]
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
"A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central cri...   [more]
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The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)
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The Word on the Street
The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides printed in Scotland between 1650 and 1910....   [more]
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
Also Known as: tlg
The TLG was founded in 1972 to digitize the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. It now includes over 6,500 works by over 1,800 authors and is fully searchable online...   [more]

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
An early predecessor to Bevans, containing U.S. treaties and agreements through 1863. Includes notes and citations. Originally published in 8 volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1863.

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
The most complete collection of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1950, originally published in 13 volumes. Multilateral treaties are grouped separately from bilateral treaties. Volume 13 is a subjec...   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1949.

Treaties Defeated by the Senate
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subtitle: A study of the struggle between President and Senate over the conduct of foreign relations. Johns Hopkins Press, 1933....   [more]
Holdings: 1933

U.K. Parliamentary Papers (1689-present)
Also Known as: 18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, HCPP, 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, UK Parliamentary Papers, House of Lords Parliamentary Papers
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U.S. Army in World War II
The U.S. Army in World War II series (the Army's official history of World War II - commonly referred to as the "Green Books") are included in PDF form at this site and corresponding to D769 .A533. Th...   [more]
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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United States Statutes at Large
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Treaties Between the United States of America and Foreign Nations...   [more]
Holdings: 1 vol. 1867

University of California Press Scholarship Editions
Many titles by the UC Press available online. Some titles are available only to UC users; others are available to the public....   [more]
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Warburg Institute Library Digital Collection
'The aim of these digital collections is to make out-of-print source material on Medieval and Renaissance studies freely available online.."...   [more]
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Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
Overview: Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 | I. Economic Development | II. Society and Culture | III. "Modern Life": Diagnoses, Prescriptions, Alternatives | IV. State and Society | ...   [more]
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William Godwin's Diary
Also Known as: William Godwins Diary , The Diary of William Godwin
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Witchcraft Collection (Cornell University Library)
Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft. ...   [more]
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Women Working
"This is the prototype of the Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the colle...   [more]
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World Trials
This collection contains such famous and important works as John Lawson's "American State Trials," "Howell's State Trials," "Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals," "Reports of State Trials" and "Six...   [more]

World War I Pamphlet Collection @ Penn
Also Known as: First World War Pamphlet Collection
Pamphlets from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries collections digitized and available through Print at Penn, The Internat Archives, and Hathi Trust. ...   [more]
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Writing History in the Digital Age
AUTHORS: Kristen Nawrotzki; Jack Dougherty Embedded within this book are arguments for rethinking how we academics create and share knowledge, particularly in history and other humanities fields that...   [more]
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American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
Also Known as: American Slavery
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Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
Also Known as: DOE Corpus
Fulltext of all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts. Texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial sentences. Units are retrieved through string, boolea...   [more]

Digital Library of the Caribbean
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean c...   [more]
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Directory of Open Access Books
Also Known as: DOAB
Searchable index to peer-reviewed, open-access monographs and edited volumes with links to the full texts of the publications at the publishers website or repository....   [more]
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Editions en ligne de l'Ecole des chartes
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EEBO: Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured ...   [more]
Holdings: 1470-1700

eHRAF Archaeology
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Modeled after HRAFs Collection of Ethnography, the Collection of Archaeology provides access to archaeological materials for comparative studies. Includes general and topical descriptions for a...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
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eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
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International Monetary Fund Publications
Also Known as: IMF Publications
Fulltext of official IMF publications, documenting and supporting the activities of the IMF in promoting international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and orderly exchange arrangements, forst...   [more]
Holdings: 1981-present.
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Mergent Archives
Also Known as: Moody's Manuals, mergent web, Mergent WebReports, mergent web reports, mergent, Municipal & government manuals, corporate manuals, Mergent's Full Collection of Digitized Manuals, Annual Reports, Municipal Manuals
Includes every Moody's or Mergent Manual published since 1909, as well as a collection of historical annual reports dating from 1925....   [more]
Holdings: 1909-
Supplemental URLs
    Mergent WebReports

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1885
contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. ...   [more]
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
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Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855,...   [more]
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Preussische Rechtsquellen Digital
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Provencal Database
The PhiloLogic implementation of the Provengal Database is based on data provided by Professor Akehurst at the University of Minnesota.

The Project for American and French Research on the Treasu...   [more]

Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women
Covers the period 1740 - 1923....   [more]
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Also Known as: UNTC, UN Treaty Series
Primary sources, fulltext and image for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the United Nations since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual tre...   [more]

World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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